Taprobana
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
Cast
Natxo Checa
Luís Vaz de Camões
Jani Zhao
Dinamene
Gabriel Abrantes
Portuguese Authority
David Lasantha
Opium Dealer
Jõao Pedro Vale
King Philipp II
Alexandre Melo
Petrarch
Gonçalo Pena
Homer
Édith Scob
L'Ambassadrice de France en Afghanistan
Andreia Cabral
Joana Pais de Brito
Nymph III
Storyline
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
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